Fitness Nutrition for Special Dietary Needs

Learn how the dietary needs of a pregnant body change through the trimesters and with exercise.

Physiology of Exercise and Healthy Aging

Including functional activities in exercise programs follows a client-centered and goal-driven approach to exercise prescription for older adults.

Practical Sports Nutrition eBook

A table of the crucial aspects of a properly designed and executed study of supplements and aids.

ACSM's Complete Guide to Fitness & Health

Rather than seeing nutrition as an obstacle, you can focus on positive food choices as part of your new healthy lifestyle.

End Back & Neck Pain

Using the body mechanic techniques described here is the best way to reduce the harmful shear, torsion, and asymmetrical loading strains that break down tissue and lead to pain.

Yoga Anatomy 2nd Edition eBook

When a muscle cell contracts, the molecules create and release bonds between the thick and thin filaments, which ratchet along each other and create a sliding movement that increases their overlap and draws the two ends of the myofibril toward each other.

Foundations of Physical Activity and Public Health eBook

As the field of physical activity and public health has emerged, it has become clear that many factors at many levels influence physical activity behaviors.

Physical Activity and Health-2nd Edition

Research has repeatedly shown that exposure to regular, frequent bouts of physical activity stimulates physiological and metabolic changes that benefit health. It is helpful to classify these as either (a) chronic effects, that is, adaptations to training acquired over weeks or months, or (b) short-term, acute responses to each individual session of activity.

Lifestyle Wellness Coaching 2nd Edition eBook

The flow model of coaching characterizes the client�s journey as one of flowing toward the sea from a high source above the clouds.

Conditioning to the Core eBook

Position the hands on a moderately unstable apparatus. The hands are directly under the shoulders with the arms perpendicular to the floor.